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I have this obsession with really cool, old books. -- Constance Zimmer
I love to both give and receive very old books. -- Augusten Burroughs
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. -- William Temple
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. -- Bernard Baruch
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. -- Jack Bowman
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages. -- Raina Telgemeier
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. -- Yayoi Kusama
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity. -- Marilynne Robinson
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Read two old books for every new one. -- J. I. Packer
The newest books are those that never grow old. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The newest books are those that never grow old. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. -- G. H. Hardy
I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries. -- Harper Lee
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. -- Naomi Ragen
Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme. -- Kate DiCamillo
I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones. -- Theodore Roosevelt
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. -- Dorothy Gilman
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. -- Richard Brautigan
I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. -- Bindi Irwin
Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. -- Tim Tharp
The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies -- Big L
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books -- Aravind Adiga
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. -- George Payne Rainsford James
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. -- Margaret Atwood
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? -- Elizabeth Kostova
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. -- Wislawa Szymborska
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -- Elizabeth Moon
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. -- Josh Lanyon
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself." -- Josh Lanyon
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little -- Voltaire
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. -- Mark Pryor
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines. -- Christian Lacroix
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. -- Diane Setterfield
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines -- Christian Lacroix
My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. -- David James Duncan
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. -- David James Duncan
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting. -- Gianni Versace
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page. -- Dave Mustaine
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old. -- Patricia Polacco
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. -- Jonathan Lethem
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. -- Margaret Drabble
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. -- Anne Fadiman
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. -- Jill Lepore
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. -- Belinda Jeffrey
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. -- Belinda Jeffrey
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. -- Leigh Hunt
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. -- Dylan Moran
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. -- Henry Ford
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. -- C. S. Lewis
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. -- Will Thomas
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. -- Nick Cave
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. -- Terry Pratchett
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. -- Amy Poehler
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. -- Method Man
In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away. -- Stan Lee
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961. -- Ed Emberley
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. -- J. I. Packer
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts. -- Mary Russell Mitford
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. -- Dane Cook
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties. -- Steig Larsson
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out. -- Lu Xun
Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush. -- Patrick Carman
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. -- Elizabeth Moon
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. -- Oscar Wilde
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. -- Lauren Willig
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. -- C. S. Lewis
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. -- Nicholas Sparks
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer. -- Francis W. Newman
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer. -- Francis W. Newman
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music. -- Charles Frazier
No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps. -- William Carlos Williams
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends. -- William Faulkner
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job. -- Sara Sheridan
I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.' -- Amy Sedaris
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. -- Henry Austin Dobson
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. -- Alberto Manguel
People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do. -- Oliver Stone
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up. -- Philip K. Dick
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments. -- Jonathan Swift
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best! -- Henry Austin Dobson

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